Catholic Religion - The Myths About the Catholic Religion2864488
I am a Catholic and extremely proud to be. I hope that was not sufficient to make you quit reading this article. Usually it only takes the reality that I am Catholic for these that are not Catholic to stop speaking to me about religion. This is because we are all human and I have to admit that I do not have the deepest understanding of numerous different religions, but I would like to clear up a few of the myths about the Catholic religion.
Initial, Catholics do not worship statues. This is a myth and 1 of the most popular ones. Numerous protestants want you use this myth to say that Catholics worship idols, but this is just not true. Why do we have statues in the Catholic church? Simple, back when there was not the great printing press and bibles were more costly than most men's wages for 3 years, the Catholics utilized statues to teach their kids about the bible.
If you think about it for a minute and you image the statues in the Catholic churches you will realize that they all have to do with one of the passages from the bible. This made it a lot simpler to teach children about the bible. It is visual and a parent can tell the story that the statues or stained glass windows represent to their children.
Second, Catholics worship Mary and the Saints. This is so false that it nearly makes me laugh. Anyone that says that Catholics worship Mary or Saints needs to study much more about the Catholic religion prior to you start telling us what we believe. Certain we pray to the saints and to Mary, but why would we not. It only makes sense to ask these that are up in heaven to pray for you. We ask our family members to pray for us and our friends to pray for us, so why not the saints and Mary.
On an additional note about Mary. The forth commandment is to honor thy father and thy mother. So if we are all the brothers and the sisters of Jesus Christ, then Mary is our mother and we are supposed to honor her as nicely, correct?
Last, the Catholic church thinks they are much better than all other faiths and is above them. This is an attitude that comes from HUMAN BEINGS, not the Catholic church. The 1 thing I run into more than any other thing is that the Catholic church did something, like molest little boys. You have to comprehend that even Priests are HUMAN BEINGS, they sin. We are all humans and this means that the Catholic church is also not hypocritical because that is the HUMAN BEINGS in the church not the Catholic religion.
